Fine-grained Authorization

The Challenge: Data Quality and Breach Risk

Organizations with a mix of medium- to high-risk custom, COTS, and SaaS applications often struggle with authorization. Authorization challenges are magnified when an organization has a high proportion of custom-built applications – especially when multiple development teams employ inconsistent methodologies and when data is shared with downstream COTS applications. Very serious negative business impacts result – including erosion of data quality, the risk from over-privileged users, degraded customer experience, and heightened regulatory and breach risk.

Our Solution: Fine-Grained Authorization Roadmaps

We help organizations develop a fine-grained authorization roadmap by modeling logical architecture and policy models, then adapting them to unique application environments.

Analyze client’s application environment, business requirements, and use cases through discovery interviews/workshops

Develop contextual and conceptual fine-grained models across each dimension in collaboration with the client’s business and application analyst

Define logical architecture blueprints and patterns for validated use cases

Create a roadmap to the future state architecture

Communicate and promote the roadmap to IT and business executives.

Benefits Of Fine-Grained Authorization Architecture:

At the conclusion of the Fine-Grained Authorization engagement, clients will obtain:

Major risk reduction by eliminating authorization inconsistencies or gaps in the core application suite(s)

We founded and ran the Burton Group identity management and security consulting practices closely-mapped to Reference Architecture decision support frameworks. After performing hundreds of engagements for Global 1000 companies, universities and government entities we now bring our expertise and industry connections to Security Architects Partners and its clients.

Our mission is to deliver high-quality security consulting and education services to enterprise security clients within commercial organizations, higher-education, government and solution provider environments through a team of expert and trusted security architects.